I am not totally clear on the concept of emissivity. I am wondering what will happen if I cover a flat panel heater with thin (3mm) black glass (touching the heater). Will some of the heat (near or medium-wave) transmit through, and some (long-wave) be absorbed and re-emitted? Will I lose efficiency from the heater?
Can you remove it and just not have a fire alarm? Then you could buy one of the battery operated kind and put it somewhere not so close to the natural heat and smoke of a cook stove. If not, you need to alert the landlord and tell him it needs to be moved because it is a nuisance. I've never heard of one mounted next to the stove for goodness sakes!
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Smoke alarms should not be located above the stove. They shouldn't even be in the kitchen. They are too sensitive. They should be in your bedrooms where you sleep, and in hallways and living rooms well away from the kitchen and bathrooms where steam itself would set it off. That's why you're having so many problems. If you look at the owner's manual for the alarm, you will see it says to NOT install it in the kitchen. Whoever ran the wires to that location didn't know what he was doing. The fact that it's hooked up to an outside alarm makes it more difficult to relocate. But I would keep bugging the landlord until it is taken care of. You can't be expected to live like it is now
It should be a rate of rise heat detector in a kitchen, not a smoke alarm. If it clips onto a base that has a plug for the connections, replace it with a rate of rise one of the same make, plug contacts will be the same.
move it or unplug and get one that runs on batteries everyone should no you dont put smoke alarm by heat sourse
